Comments on: Day 17 – October 17th https://johnthornhillonline.com/blog/day-17-october-17th/ Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: David DeWitt https://johnthornhillonline.com/blog/day-17-october-17th/#comment-359 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:48:16 +0000 http://planetsmsblog.com/day-17-october-17th/#comment-359 John! I mentioned this little site at MyQuickBid.net out of curiosity about the value of a mini auction site that may have only 100 or so members to sell to. Compared to ebay, a site this tiny is non-existent but it would have members who are focused on just what is on their site and perhaps someone who sells there would sign up for a newsletter, or even purchase a membership. Is it wise or a waste of time to market to 100 people?

I shocked myself by going online to see what the top twenty auction sites had to offer in the way of ebooks. MOST OF THEM don’t have a clue what an ebook is! Much less a digital product!

The top auctions site are ebay, uBid, and Bidz.com.

Only ebay seems to be into digital products in a big way – the others, Yahoo Auctions (their US auction site is retired!), MSN Auctions, Amazon.com Auctions, Auctionweiser, AuctionAddict,Auction-Warehouse, AuctioNet.com, Auctions.com, FairAuctions, Auctionscape, Internet Auction List, It’s Gotta Go, Buyit Sellit, Auctionguide.com, AuctionPort, and Xuppa Auctions fill out the top twenty auctions sites, and have virtually nothing in the way of ebooks as far as I could tell.

Maybe I am not looking closely enough but this is more than surprising to me. What in the world are these sites doing leaving this HUGE market to ebay alone?

Perhaps the IM-er’s here are laughing their arses off at my “discovery”. But really, I just assumed that if ebay was offering ebooks and digital products on their site, everyone else was, too!

Go figure.

Best, David~

]]> By: John Thornhill https://johnthornhillonline.com/blog/day-17-october-17th/#comment-358 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:26:53 +0000 http://planetsmsblog.com/day-17-october-17th/#comment-358 David – I can’t answer your question as I have only ever used eBay. One thing I do know though is the traffic eBay receives is far greater than any other auction site and that is the main reason most people choose eBay.

Maybe someone who has had experience with other auction sites will add their thoughts.

]]> By: David DeWitt https://johnthornhillonline.com/blog/day-17-october-17th/#comment-357 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:17:31 +0000 http://planetsmsblog.com/day-17-october-17th/#comment-357 Hi, Everyone! John, what do you think of small auction sites that are owned by individuals as an income stream for ebooks? I ran into a small auction site that recently was hacked into and the owner lost about $20,000 by the time he stopped the hacker from going into his Admin area. His sellers weren’t harmed but he was when the site went down for over a month. He seems to be on the road to recovery, and offers free listings up to $20 for first time sellers, even a FREE STORE with only your own items in it! Are these types of sites worth joining if only to market your other products and websites on their pages? Check out this one at:

http://www.myquickbid.net

What do you think?

Regards, David~

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